Mendelssohn in Birmingham Vol.5: Overtures
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5235
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd June 2019
Contents
Works
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21Athalia: Overture, op.74
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27
Overture in C major 'Trumpet', op.101
Paulus, op.36
Ruy Blas: Overture, op.95
The Fair Melusine Overture, op.32
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26
Artists
City of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraConductor
Edward GardnerWorks
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21Athalia: Overture, op.74
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27
Overture in C major 'Trumpet', op.101
Paulus, op.36
Ruy Blas: Overture, op.95
The Fair Melusine Overture, op.32
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26
Artists
City of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraConductor
Edward GardnerAbout
As on the previous volumes, a reduced-size CBSO joins Gardner in Birmingham’s Town Hall, where Mendelsohn himself conducted many of the UK premieres of his own orchestral works. Mendelssohn composed the majority of the works in the programme as concert overtures, spanning the length of his career, from the early Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), composed when he was just sixteen, through to Ruy Blas, written towards the end of his life.
He composed two of these overtures as the opening movement of larger works: Paulus, his first great oratorio, from 1836, and Athalie, incidental music written for Racine’s play. The ‘Trumpet’ Overture is the earliest work here, written possibly to precede a performance of Handel’s Israel in Egypt, and allegedly the favourite, among Mendelssohn’s works, of Mendelssohn’s father!
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